Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mitsuri Meiki's high-concept "pink film" (a remarkably resilient Japanese brand of soft-core exploitation) is a sexploitation spy spoof with halfhearted ambitions of satire between the spectacles of energetically simulated sex. The frequently naked Emi Kuroda is Sachiko, a call girl turned supergenius after a bullet in the head rewires her brain directly to her libido. Now she debates philosophy and geopolitics as foreplay (I can see the American remake now: "Talk Chomsky to Me, Baby!") and tears off her clothes to plumb the depths of American foreign policy with a North Korean spy and the cloned finger of George Bush. More entertaining for its impudence than its execution, the scrambled political satire has all the sophistication of a Punch and Judy show with a star-spangled wardrobe and "Philosophy for Dummies" dialogue, but give it points for originality. The screwy ingenuity and conceptual craziness more than justifies its existence. (Sean Axmaker)

GRADE: B

At Northwest Film Forum through Thursday. In Japanese with English subtitles. 90 minutes. No rating, features copious nudity, simulated sex and bodily fluids.